The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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THE Athletics of Bergen Point, N j., played
q game of base ball at that place day or two
| ago with a nine composed Of well known
theatrical people, who appeared in costume.
TWENTY YOUNG MEN competed last week at
Westfeld, Mass, for a West Point cadetship,
and the examining surgeon was compelled to
rejected ten of them on account of tobacco
heart, brought on by cigarette smoking
THE Isle of Man steamer Queen Victoria is
claimed by her admirers across the water to be
the fastest steam vessel in the world. She re-
Gently ran from Greenock to Liverpool in nine
hours, averaging a speed of 1862 miles an hour.
A portion Of the trip was made III, the teeth of
gale Of wind.
THE Con$errator, the organ Of the colored
folks of Chicago, has this to say about the Nc
Gargle episode: $50 you let DIcGarigle get
away, did you? I moved it, leastways spec ed
it. You all was too particular bout his health
an his high toned ways If he had been col
ored man put in jail for grabbn' g stray chicken
they'd dun put him in a cell and forgot he was
there This way maxim fish out O one man an
dog meat out o. mother amt right"
THE latest fasting girl reported is Lula Grim,
of Cumberland comfy, n. c. Lula is 10 years
old, and until June was robust. On that day
she declared that she could not and would not
swallow anything. Since that day nothing, not
even drop of water, passed her lips until July
26 the fifty second day of her long abstinence.
She then took tablespoonful OF chicken broth.
fast and she does not seem to suffer from its
effects.
Two BEARS chased West Greeneaf O1ich.)
man. He climbed tree which was too small
for the bears grasp, but they hung around the
neighbOrhoodfor five hours, while the man, who
had been to school and could read and write and
make speech and vote. remained alOft because
he was afraid to como down. At the end of that
time his wife came the same route, and,
upon meeting the bears, just tapped her apron
ya he wa nriy oh IT nf thA cpar1 RI
and they ran away.
New government envelopes, it is stated, are
to be issued about Sept. 10. The 1c. envelope
will be blue in color, the &c. green, the DC car
mine, the BE- Milori blue, the 10c. chocolate, the
SOC Bismarck brown, and the 90c. purple. The
1Oc, 3Oc. and Soc stamps will not be changed.
The dies for the new designs have been COM
pleted. 1t is not probable that any of the old
designs will be issued after this month, enough
being made from now on to supply the interval
from Sept to Sept. TO-
Hon. j. F. CASANOVA, of Philadelphia, was
sitting in his office reading, when he heard a
sharp click and felt something enter his right
eye. On examination he found that a small
scale of glass had burst from his eyeglasses
Going to BARRIERS shop, he had a stream of
| water injected forcibly, by means of a rubber
| tube, under the eyelid, with the effect of wash
ing out the silver of glass, which was about the
| size and shape of shad's scale. No harm was
| done to the eye whatever a short time before
| the accident the frame of the eyeglasses had
| been frightened.
THE interesting statement is made i'll the last
municipal reports of the corporation of Chel-
| sea, near London, that, contrary to what has
| generally been assumed in the relations of oc-
| cupation and health, the sewermen of that
| place show marvellous health and vitality, not
| withstanding they spend seven hours daily in
| the sewers, often in cramped up positions,
| dealing with offensive and dangerous matter
| One of the sewermen, who is now pensiOned off,
Old and
| than twenty-eight years: another, who is yet at
work, is "a, and has followed this occupation
more than thirty years
A STRANGER applied for work at stating on
new house in Newark, N j., a few days ago,
| and was given job with another man. The
| two men were working near the hole where the
chimney was to be placed, when the stranger
suddenly disappeared while his companions
back was turned. The latter looked from the
edge of the roof to the ground, but could see
nothing. He then peered down the chimney
| hole and could see the man lying in the cellar.
| He had fallen through a hole sixty feet to the
| ground. He was insensible when picked up,
and was revived with some brandy. An hour
afterward the stranger dragged himself to a
| street car and was carried away. None of the
workmen knew the man.
T. c. CRAWFORD writes from London to the
New York World that the paper with the
largest income in England is the Daily TeIe-
graph. Its circulation is nearly 800 O0O and its
net profits are Sl.5O0,00O 1t has a reserve fund
| OF $4,000 900. The London Times has only
aJout 10000 circulation. It's net income is
| about $3.50, coo The Standard has 10000 cir
| culation and clears about as much as. the
| Times. The circulation of the Daily Ne1cS is put
| at 100000, and its profits at $4,000 year.
| The Graphic and the Illustrated London Ne1Us
| each clear more than $500 900 annually. LIOu}S
Weekly is worth $3.50, goo year to the pro-
| prietOr None of the London papers are any
thing like as enerprising as the great dailies in
| the United States.
Mrs. BEECHER has finally agreed to write
series of articles for publication in the weekly
| papers of this country and Canada. The arti-
eles will be devoted mainly to social topics,
| ranging from marriage and divorce to the dress
| and care of children, and thence on to society
| in general, education, and the domestic duties
| of women. 1t is officially stated that Mrs
BeecherS purpose in writing these papers Is not
money making one, as the insurance upon her
husbands1ife, added to their savings, has placed
her beyond the reach of want Since the
great preachers death, however, the lady has
had little or no occupation. and as ideness leads
only to broOding in her case, she has wisely de-
cided to go to work. She is now at the home of
her son-in-law in Stamford, but will return to
Brooklyn in the fall.
THE young King of Spain, says the Pail Mall
Gazette writer, was one year old on June 49,
The Talor's Guild of Madrid respectfully asked
permission of Queen Chrstiana to present his
| juvenile Majesty with his first uniform The
queen regent Cnecrluily gave nef assent. and
now the taii0rs are busy cutting out and sewing
out of the finest cloth manufactured the small
est uniform that was probably ever made for a
| monarch. 1t is deliberately trimmed with real
| gold lace and much onamentcd The question
of rank arose and was submitted to the Queen
On his first birthday the King, who was enrolled
in the army from his birth, was to be promoted
In the Spanish army the officers wear the insip-
MIA of rank on the sleeve, hence il was necessary
for the tailors to know his degree of rank The
Queens decision has not yet been made known
tiny sword, veritalle baby sword, with a
hilt of gold that is said to he u masterpiece Of
the jewellers art, goes with this remarkable
uniform.
INTERESTING STATISTICS relating to the new
insurance law in Massachusetts prohibiting life
! insurance companies from discriminating be-
tween white ard colored people in rates have
been prepared by the insurance commissioner
and summarized by the Springfield Republican.
They show that more cOlOred women than men
live to he 30 and 100, and more women die than |
men. With the whites, however the men don't |
have rs good q show. For, whether they are |
married or single, more of them die than |
women; but strangely enough more widows die |
than widowers. Thus n woman Is much surer |
of life while single or married than man. but |
in widowhood she must surrender any such ply |
steal superiority. How regardless both widow |
ers and widows are of these statistical con |
illusions can be seen in the fact that widowclrs |
are much more prone to marry than widows A |
curious thing is that more coorcd people die |